A passage from the diary of a U.S. Far East Air Forces commander during the Korean war says that the U.S. considered using atomic bombs during the conflict.

Lieutenant General George Edward Stratemeyer said in his diary that the U.S. Army analyzed the tactical use of atomic bombs in September 1950, three months after the Korean War broke out.

He also said that a U.S. Army nuclear expert visited Korean battlefields in December 1950 to study the use of atomic bombs in combat.

The passage also reads that a U.S. Air Force plane mistakenly bombed and killed 20 British soldiers and wounded 21 others who were fighting on the peninsula.

Stratemeyer served as the U.S. Far East Air Forces commander during the first year of the Korean War. He died in August of 1969.